Gold reached a new high this week, crossing above $2,200 for the first time. Year-to-date, gold is up 8%, and since the end of 2021 it’s gained more than 20%, topping the S&P 500. This raises two questions: Can we expect this rally to continue? And does gold deserve a place in your [...]
The five seasons
In his book Just Keep Buying, Nick Maggiulli makes an observation about the world of personal finance: If you Google common questions such as “How much should I save?” you’ll receive more than 100,000 results. It’s an overwhelming amount of information—almost too much to be useful. But there’s a [...]
New thinking
Among the quotes attributed to Mark Twain is this one: “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” This highlights one of the challenges of personal finance: that the data and the conclusions we rely on for decision-making can never [...]
A tax planning toolbox for retirement
Retirement, ironically, can take work. It requires us to restructure how we think about both our time and our finances. Tax planning, in particular, tends to take more of a center stage role. If you’re approaching retirement—or are already there—there are several tax strategies worth [...]
Investors’ biggest obstacle
My first day in the investment industry was—unfortunately—not so great. On the morning of September 15, 2008, the investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, sending the market into freefall. The rest of 2008 was equally ugly, with the S&P 500 losing 37% for the year. But that [...]
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